Dairy cooperative Fonterra has been fined $192,000 by the Environment Court for causing a foul stench in a small Taranaki town, after millions of litres of buttermilk were dumped in a wastewater plant.
There was an oversupply of raw milk in 2013, which the company dumped at the wastewater plant in Eltham.
The milk soon went off, causing a stench in the town and upsetting locals.
The South Taranaki District Council was also fined – it gave Fonterra permission to dump the milk.
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